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Mammon's Ecology (Hardcover)
Stan Goff; Foreword by Ched Myers
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R1,076
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Borderline (Hardcover)
Stan Goff; Foreword by Amy Laura Hall
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R1,848
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In his sharp, observant book, Stan Goff grapples with a problem
crucial to modern Christian values. The sanctification of war and
contempt for women are both grounded in a fear that breeds
hostility, a hostility that valorises conquest and murder. In
'Borderline', Goff dissects the driving force behind the darkest
impulses of the human heart. The un-Christian history of loving war
and hating women are not merely similar but two sides of the same
coin, he argues, in an 'autobiography' that spans two millennia of
war and misogyny. 'Borderline' is the personal and conceptual
history of an American career army veteran transformed by Jesus
into a passionate advocate for nonviolence, written by a man who
narrates his conversion to Christianity through feminism.
Goff's career as an NCO in the Special Forces (Delta Force, US
Rangers, Special Ops) took him from the invasions of Panama,
Grenada and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian Army
(ostensibly in drug interdiction), to a semester as a West Point
lecturer, to Mogadishu at the time of the operation immortalized in
Black Hawk Down. Unlike the typical soldier's memoir, Goff does not
in machismo or heart-searching. He draws lessons from his past,
lessons about foreign policy, lessons about the police-actions
designed to create stable environments for US corporations in the
Western Hemisphere, lessons about how the days of the American
Imperium are numbered. The books covers such subjects as: the slow
collapse in Armed Forces morale due to the ongoing reductions in
health and pension benefits; the continual overestimation of the
ability of technology to work in hostile terrain; the moral in the
story of Odoacer, the Germanic mercenary who turned against his
Roman employers and sacked Rome in AD 476; new American Empire
ignorance of the lessons of history; the failure of "intelligence"
as a result of racist stereotyping of countries unwilling to submit
to US hegemony.
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Borderline (Paperback)
Stan Goff; Foreword by Amy Laura Hall
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R1,247
R1,045
Discovery Miles 10 450
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